Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.

To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.

Δύο υπερβολές : ν' αποκλείουμε το Λόγο, και να μη δεχόμαστε παρά μόνο το Λόγο.

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

I sighed. "Would it be too much to ask that Asgard be peaceful? Made up of big, fluffy clouds, serenity, and lots of hot yoga?

Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.

People have this impression that I'm this crazy Christian, but I'm really balanced.

If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?

We create revolution by living it.

Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.

Memory is imagination pinned down.

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.

There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.

No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.